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In it, Singer profiles a group of men in El Paso, Texas who become obsessed with the idea that Skull and Bones has possession of Villa's skull. The piece 'La Cabeza de Villa' was reprinted in a 2006 collection of New Yorker articles from Singer titled Character Studies. One of those other famous persons is believed to be Mexico's Robin Hood, General Francisco 'Pancho' Villa, whose skull was swiped from his grave following his assassination and burial in 1923. Several sources report Villa's head to have been stolen, but the argument that it ended up on a dusty shelf at S&B is less convincing, especially after reading an old New Yorker article by Mark Singer. It makes you wonder what other famous dead people are missing their skulls.' Rosenbaum writes that, 'Her initiate guide explained to her.that in order to prove their mettle and perhaps to bond them in mutual guilt over participation in an illicit act, each class of 15 new initiates to Skull and Bones were required to dig up, to `confiscate,' the skull of a famous person and bring it to the Tomb to be enshrined in its skull collection.

SKULL AND BONES YALE LICENSE

She reported seeing a little Nazi shrine, a roomful of license plates with the number 322 (an oblique reference to the founding date of this homoerotic frat), and 'loads of skulls,' including one in an 'aquarium-like glass case filled with what looked like turquoise chips,' that was identified the skull of 'a great native American warrior.' Perhaps Geronimo. One other lass, whose boyfriend was a Bonesman, snuck her into the Tomb.

How does he know? Seems a bold crew of liberated '70s chicks busted into the all-male sanctuary back when, and took pics of themselves cavorting with the bones therein. Rosenbaum ferrets out the fact that, yes, this secret Yale society has a collection of skulls in 'the Tomb,' the nearly windowless HQ of Skull and Bones members. In reading up on what (ahem) legitimate sources I could find on the subject, I ran across a piece by Ron Rosenbaum written for The New York Observer in 2000. Among the collection are supposedly not only the skulls of Geronimo, but of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, and numerous others.

It is now allegedly part of a collection of famous noggins stolen by various generations of Yalies belonging to S&B. Bush's grandpappy Prescott Bush pilfered it from its grave in Ft. They're suing because it's rumored that Yale's secret society has possession of Geronimo's skull, you see.Īccording to legend, George W. Curiosity's driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo.

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